Benny Ricardo
| Date of birth | January 4, 1954 |
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| Place of birth | Asunción, Paraguay |
| Career information | |
| Position(s) | Placekicker |
| College | San Diego State |
| NFL draft | 1975 / Round: |
| Career history | |
| As player | |
| 1975 | Southern California Sun |
| 1976 | Buffalo Bills |
| 1976, 1978–1979 | Detroit Lions |
| 1980–1981 | New Orleans Saints |
| 1983 | Minnesota Vikings |
| 1984 | San Diego Chargers |
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Benito Concepcion "Benny" Ricardo (born January 4, 1954 in Asunción, Paraguay) is a former American football placekicker in the NFL (1976-1984) for the Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions, New Orleans Saints, Minnesota Vikings, and the San Diego Chargers. He played college football at San Diego State University. He is distinguished as being the first Paraguayan to play in the National Football League.
Personal life
Ricardo is a sometimes-actor who also has appeared in the motion pictures North Dallas Forty and Wildcats.
He is now a stand-up comedian and the only bilingual announcer to have announced network events as both the lead announcer and color commentator in both Spanish and English. Ricardo has announced every major sporting event in the world while working for networks like ESPN, Fox Sports, CBS Sports, Westwood One, Integrated Media, Fightnow TV, Televisa, NBC, MultiVision Media, Top Rank, CSI Sports, Primetime, M1-Global, Affliction, etc.